More than 900 Amazon employees plan a strike to fight climate change inaction

Nearly 950 Amazon employees who work at the company's headquarters in Seattle and at other sites plan to strike on Sept. 20 to convince the company to demonstrate "real leadership in the field." climate change, "they announced Monday morning.

"As employees of one of the largest and most powerful companies in the world, our role in dealing with the climate crisis is to ensure that our society takes the lead in climate change." "We did not follow," wrote Amazon Employees for Climate Justice in a Medium article. "We must take responsibility for the impact of our activities on the planet and on people."

Employees have three main requests from Amazon. They want zero emissions by 2030, including driving electric vehicles in communities most affected by pollution, without custom contracts with Amazon Web Services for oil and gas companies and without funding for lobbyists and politicians who , in their opinion, deny climate change.

Amazon has touted its commitment to reducing the impact of humans on climate change in a response to FOX Business.

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"We have dedicated sustainability teams who have been working for years on initiatives to reduce our impact on the environment." Earlier this year, we announced Shipment Zero – Amazon's vision for that all Amazon shipments are net zero carbon, with 50% of all deliveries in net zero 2030, "said a spokeswoman for Amazon.

The Amazon strike will coincide with the climate strike of Greta Thunberg, a 16-year-old activist, also starting on 20 September.

Amazon employees for Climate Justice have pushed Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to comply with their demands for months. Despite pressure from civil rights groups, activist investors, and its own employees, Amazon said in May that shareholders at its annual meeting in Seattle voted against a climate change proposal, angering the group. # 39; employees.

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